[elearning] Question and Answer sites (e.g. stackoverflow)

[Victor Rajewski]

Hi Andrew,

I've only just set up the site, and have some tweaking to do before it goes
live to the school, so it won't have any content on it until next year. And
I want to make it a closed shop/walled garden at least for the moment (not
to say I won't create accounts for demonstrating it to outside people who
ask me nicely ;) But I would strongly recommend having a play on
stackoverflow/superuser/serverfault (or any of the offshoots listed on the
bottom of those pages) to get a feel for the tech and its possibilities. I
could easily imagine a site like this replacing these sorts of mailing lists
- perhaps I'll set one up as an experiment, but then again, if there is
enough interest and commitment, stackoverflow will create and host one.

As for blogs etc - I'm still in the process of sorting out a public blog,
but I'm @vikjmss on twitter.

Cheers,

Victor Rajewski
IT Manager
John Monash Science School
+61 3 9902 9828


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net>wrote:

> Hi Victor
> This sounds very interesting... I, and perhaps others?? ( I note Kevork's
> post on ITAPPS today) woudl be interested in some followup on this...  maybe
> a URL so we could lurk on your Open Source Q&A ...? or a blog url so we
> could follow you?
>
> Andrew Shortell
> soon to leave Wallan SC
>
>
> On 19/11/2010, at 11:05 AM, Victor Rajewski wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm curious if anybody has used any sites or services such as stackoverflow
> for educational purposes. Stackoverflow is a community driven
> question-and-answer site for programming questions, but has spawned a number
> of offshoots. Users get points for different types of activity (posting,
> commenting, answering, voting), and can use accumulated points for
> 'bounties' on their questions (and a warm fuzzy feeling inside). Somewhat
> like a forum, but with a bit more of a social aspect, and reward aspect.
>
> If so, what have people's experiences been?
>
> I'm going to introduce such a service to our school for next year (I'm
> using the OSQA system to run such a site locally) to see what happens - some
> faculties have been successfully subject-specific helpdesk-type forums this
> year, so this might replace them if things go well. I'm also hoping it will
> work alongside the other IT helpdesk resources.
>
> There is a proposed site like this for pedagogy at the stack exchange
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23685/pedagogy - have a look and
> vote for it if you think it would be useful.
>
> Victor Rajewski
> IT Manager
> John Monash Science School
> +61 3 9902 9828
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